Enrique Fernández Viola

Enrique Fernández Viola ( born June 10, 1912 in Montevideo; † 6 October 1985) was an Uruguayan football player and coach. He is the only coach who won the Spanish Cup with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Playing career

Fernández won in 1935 while he was playing on the side of Héctor Castro for Nacional Montevideo, with the national team, the Campeonato Sudamericano 1935. Between 1933 and 1935, he completed a total of 8 caps for the Uruguay national team, while shooting a goal. He made his debut on 21 January 1933. His last assignment in the Celeste dated January 27, 1935.

For the season 1935/36, the Uruguayan moved to FC Barcelona and won there twice the Catalan Championship. Fernández ' league debut for Barcelona was 1-0 against Espanyol on 10 November 1935. Overall, he scored eight goals this season in 17 games. Between 1935 and 1936, Fernández played three games for the Catalan football team.

His playing career at FC Barcelona came through the erupting in Spain civil war to an abrupt end. It was at this time in his native Uruguay, when the club advised him to stay there. Fernández played ultimately one more season for his hometown club Nacional Montevideo.

Coaching career

After he had to end his playing career due to a serious knee injury at the age of 25 years, Fernández was nine years later, in 1946, coach of Nacional Montevideo. In 1947, he became coach of FC Barcelona. With players like Juan Velasco Zambudio, and Estanislao Basora, César, he could lead Barça 1948 and 1949 the Spanish championship. In his third season at Barcelona, ​​he also won the Copa Latina. However, he was in the league this year only fifth, which meant that it was after this season replaced by Ferdinand Daučík.

In 1950 he went back to Nacional Montevideo and Uruguay won his second championship as a coach there. In 1953 he was appointed as the new coach of Real Madrid. Only Fernández Radomir Antic and trained so far both clubs. Fernández won with Real Madrid in the season 1953/54, the Spanish Cup, their first championship since 1933. In the 1954/55 season he was released after ten games and replaced by José Villalonga Llorente.

Later in his coaching career, he worked among others still for Betis Sevilla and the Uruguayan national team.

Achievements

Players:

  • Uruguayan Championship: 1933, 1934
  • Catalan Championships: 1935, 1936
  • Copa América: 1935

Coach:

  • Uruguayan Championship: 1946, 1950
  • Spanish Cup: 1948, 1949, 1954
  • Chilean Championship: 1956
  • Copa Latina: 1949
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